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FACULTY AWARD: Chang-rae Lee receives Dayton Literary Peace Prize

Posted September 27, 2011; 12:18 p.m.

by Staff

Chang-rae Lee, a Princeton professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, has been selected to receive the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in fiction for his novel "The Surrendered." Lee will receive the award, which celebrates the power of literature to promote peace, nonviolent conflict resolution and global understanding, and is accompanied by a $10,000 prize, at a ceremony on Nov. 13.